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MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 199, Issue 3, Pages 227-237Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s00430-010-0152-3
Keywords
Measles virus; Immunosuppression; Dendritic cells; T-cell signaling; Ceramides
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Sonderforschungsbereich 479]
- Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, University of Wurzburg
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Immunosuppression is the major cause of infant death associated with acute measles. Hallmarks of this generalized modulation of immune functions include: (1) lymphopenia, (2) a prolonged cytokine imbalance consistent with suppression of cellular immunity to secondary infections and (3) silencing of peripheral blood lymphocytes that fail to expand in response to ex vivo stimulation. Lymphopenia results from depletion of T cells by mechanisms also involving MV infection, and expression of the major MV receptor CD150 plays an important role for targeting these cells. Virus transfer to T cells is thought to be mediated by dendritic cells (DCs), which are considered as central to the induction of T-cell silencing and functional skewing. MV interaction modulates functional differentiation of DCs, and thereby expression pattern of costimulatory molecules and soluble mediators. Moreover, MV proteins expressed by these cells actively silence T cells by interfering with signaling pathways essential for T-cell activation. As an essential component of this interference, the MV glycoprotein complex activates cellular sphingomyelinases in a contact-dependent manner, and these are effective at preventing stimulated rearrangements of the actin cytoskeleton and thereby morphological and functional polarization and motility of T cells.
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